On July 4, I challenged SLA members to view the videos of the candidates for 2009 SLA offices. Slowly but surely I'm watching them myself.
As promised, below are some notes on the two candidates for president-elect, from their eight-minute videos.
Don't forget to stop by the SLA-NY Happy Hour if you're in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday evening, July 29. It's your chance to meet the candidates.
Janice Anderson is the founder, CEO and board chair for Access Sciences
Corporation in
Houston. We as
SLA members and as an organization have several choices
for the future, she said. Among those are “So Long Ago,” focusing on the past.
Other choices are “Search, Locate, Analyze” and “Seek, Learn, Apply.”
Anderson, though, recommends that
SLA should mean “So Let’s Anticipate (Agree, Act,
Advocate and Achieve) all we can be in the 21st Century.”
Anne Caputo is Executive Director of Dow Jones' Learning & Information Professional Programs; she also serves on the faculty or adjunct faculty at information schools of the University of Maryland and University of Tennessee. Caputo chose “the power of groups and instruments together” to symbolize the strength and building blocks for SLA. In her car stereo, Caputo listens to a wide variety of music, from classical to country. When a friend asked the common thread, she later came to realize that all the musicians were part of groups, not soloists. “Sometimes one voice takes the lead and sometimes the harmony is very close,” Caputo said. “Often we sing in one language, often we sing in multiple languages.”